bigfury3
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Quick question about my 66 fury III just curious if wheel well vents were standard on non AC cars they really come in handy in the summer over here in California.
Wheel well air vents?
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bigfury3
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Also I'm working on engine swap right now so I was looking at my current exhaust and it has some old school blue streak glass pack not sure if they are worth anything or have any significance and if I should get new mufflers or just run them with the new exhaust.
Yes, they were standard. You'll see them on AC equipped C-bodies too. My '70 300 'vert has AC and the vents.
Glass pack mufflers tend to blow out the fiberglass after some use. That makes them louder...
Blue Streak mufflers were made by Allied and I think they were sold under the Walker name brand. I don't know as used ones are worth anything, but I've been wrong about that before. From what I read, those were the glass pack of choice for some.
Personally, I don't care for the sound... And old ones are louder than new. But that's me. I run mufflers spec'd for a Caddy with my 2 1/2" TTI exhaust.
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
I know in 69 AC cars had the right vent capped off.
Alan
Alan
Those mufflers are/were sold by Walker Continental as Blue Swingers, and Blue Streak was the Allied (non Walker name for speed shop vendors etc.) - the longer they are the better they sound, but as noted above they empty out and get louder. Also, they can be installed backwards if desired to lessen their muffling effect and be louder right off the hop.
While some people hate the glasspack sound, I love them, and they're a sound of my youth. They were very popular mufflers, and the NOS ones if you can find them, sell for quite decent bux. I have two pairs of NOS Blue Swingers stashed away.
If you were to take those off, clean them up, they'd sell on eBay for sure.
Here's an old ad for NOS Blue Streaks
PhotoPost Classifieds - NOS Blue Streak - Glass Pack , Sidepipe Mufflers - Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds
While some people hate the glasspack sound, I love them, and they're a sound of my youth. They were very popular mufflers, and the NOS ones if you can find them, sell for quite decent bux. I have two pairs of NOS Blue Swingers stashed away.
If you were to take those off, clean them up, they'd sell on eBay for sure.
Here's an old ad for NOS Blue Streaks
PhotoPost Classifieds - NOS Blue Streak - Glass Pack , Sidepipe Mufflers - Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds
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